Remember when the web didn’t suck?
Here’s what’s behind that stupid ad
It clearly implies there is some kind of safety benefit to it. But there is not.
Clicking on the ad leads to a lengthy slide show which eventually gets to the doorknob story.
All it says is aluminum foil can be used as an alternative to tape to cover doorknobs and hardware while painting.
It has nothing to do with safety and the inclusion of the phrase “when you’re home alone” was only used as clickbait to make the ad seem more important.
Thanks for taking one for the team and checking that out. I sure wasn’t gonna
I Always click on those ads to waste their daily budget
Explain to me like I’m five, how does this?
Advertisers pay a fee to the website where their ad is displayed every time someone clicks on it, it’s called the Pay Per Click model. It’s how websites make money off running ads. There is a small fee for displaying the ad and larger one for click throughs.
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Thank you for taking that bullet for us!
I’ve been using ad blockers for so long that I forgot about these ridiculous click bait ads.
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If I were less lazy, I’d make a gif of myself zapping your comment with the uBlock Origin element zapper tool.
Yeah, but here we are
Of course, the “while painting” was implied. I’m so embarrassed I didn’t clue in immediately.
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Big foils propaganda at work.
Thank you. I was pondering why put foil on door knobs.
Obviously! To keep the knob’s thoughts from being read.
I was under the impression it was a safety thing. If you grab loose foil like that it will form to the hand crushing it to turn the knob and therefore you know the home has had “visitors” without you saying so.
I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you’d get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that’s behind us.
This still happens on dodgy football streaming sites.
Find the ones that only give you 2-3 links to go through. They used to exist for the NHL atleast.
Then you also had the sites that would trap you there, every time you clicked the back button it would just reload the page.
Every single Microsoft site still does this.
I mean there are still websites that open themselves 10 times so you can’t click back out of them. I am curious as to what their end game is. Do they imagine we go “well damn can’t go back out of this page, might as well start living here now”
<script> function openNewWindow() {
window.open("https://this.site.com", "_blank"); newWindow.moveTo(0, 0); newWindow.resizeTo(screen.width, screen.height); } window.onbeforeunload = function() { openNewWindow(); };</script>
At least that’s behind us.
I sure am (‿!‿) ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ)
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Sorry, I couldn’t resist. And contrariwise to this pic I do agree with you, the web used to be better. Sure, ads were always a fucking annoyance, but they’re reaching unbearable levels nowadays; a lot of people (like me) tend to not see it because of ad blockers, but once you turn them off? Eeeeew.
Wild that the original of this image edit was “remember when /b/ was good” back in 2005
Well, you could land on a bad site full of nasty ads or wind up downloading software that offered you the finest of malware or viruses.
And you could just not go to them, or not download sus programs or warez.
Now the sites and apps hunt you down and shove it in your face. They follow you, rat on you, sell your info, and constantly try to sell You stuff every page you land on.
Yeah, Old Internet wasn’t great, but it wasn’t institutionalized malice like we have today.
Whenever I turn off AdGuard on my phone to get something to work and then forget it’s off I’m bombarded with ads everywhere and I’m like “oh, yeah, gotta turn that back on”
Remember when the web didn’t suck?
No, I don’t. Not since 2000, when I logged on from home for the first time. The majority of it has always sucked. Then the web can suddenly do new things… and finds new ways to suck.
It has, however, always had excellent little areas and corners.Right? Do you remember going to websites and your computer would yell out that you were watching porn? Ads would burst forth like you just won fucking Solitaire. Shit took forever to download, and if you lost connection in the middle, start over!
I guess if you started using the Internet after like 2008, when things really started to take off, you saw a golden hour. But it was a dangerous place in the early 2000s, although I learned a lot about how to unfuck computers in my quest for boobs as a teenager.
I miss early YouTube that had full episodes of just about any TV show illegally uploaded without any sort of copyright enforcement.
I also miss reddit, but what it used to be is gone forever.
Knowing about “Temporary Internet Files” while my family was unaware made me feel like some sort of God of knowledge.
Oh and yeah I think I found porn there hooray!
So I think the idea of the tinfoil is that somebody grabbing the knob will make noise.
Therefore altering you.
You’d be better off with an alarm system and a deadbolt lock, though.
That’s what I figured - pretty much any alarm system would be better, but could technically help you in a pinch
Alternatively the intruder will just be so confused they’ll decide to break into another house instead of figuring out what the foil does
Probably assume they ran out of socks.
You put foil on the knob when you have a date with a leftover pizza.
Actually the ad matches the article. To me the ad is “fringe” and it has infested the “mainstream” (CNN).
The only thing infecting me reading this is cringe.
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I’m so frustrated with the internet right now. My wife started making Castile soap and I’m trying to find out if its some fu-fu-berry-bullshit or like an actual decent soap. Google is feeding me momfluencers (which range from ‘fine but there is no accountability’ to blatant grifters) and sites that are simply trying to sell this stuff. I’m going to try again with kagi tonight, but it’s still very frustrating that I never know what to trust anymore. The bullshit is coming faster than I’m able to handle it
What? That is gold, not Mildly Infuriating at all.
I just saw this but with a toilet paper roll under the toilet seat when alone.
“be reminded that you forgot to get tp when you really need it with this one weird trick!”
Use an adblocker in your browser and an ad-blocking DNS server like Mullvad DNS (it’s super easy on Android, just search for Private DNS in the settings and set it to
base.dns.mullvad.net), AdGuard DNS (same thing, super easy, just set it todns.adguard-dns.com) or NextDNS on your phone (and ideally on all your other devices). There’s also an app called AdAway, but it takes up the VPN slot so you can’t use it together with a VPN.The MSM tries to act like the voice of reason when they’re the biggest purveyors of disinfo by a wide margin.
If you mean via ads like this, I would agree. They could do more to filter out the garbage.
But if you mean in their content, I’m not seeing that, beyond the usual (long history) leaning to one side or another.
But these are two very different things and shouldn’t be equated.
